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IBM Maximo vs JIRA Service Management comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Maximo
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) (1st), Billing Software (4th)
JIRA Service Management
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (2nd), IT Service Management (ITSM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

IBM Maximo and JIRA Service Management aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM Maximo is designed for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and holds a mindshare of 28.7%, up 26.7% compared to last year.
JIRA Service Management, on the other hand, focuses on IT Service Management (ITSM), holds 10.2% mindshare, down 12.2% since last year.
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
IT Service Management (ITSM)
 

Featured Reviews

Jose Pedro Muñoz - PeerSpot reviewer
A very strong and powerful tool in the market preferred by a variety of industries
I rate the technical support a seven out of ten. Three levels of support in IBM. The first one is a fixed level, while levels two and three are very good. Here, level one is not very good, as it takes time to go from level one to level two and from level two to level three. So, level one is of low capacity.
Karim Yousef - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently track and document projects with seamless tool integration
We are a management warehouse that provides services to different customers in different sectors. Primarily, we serve the banking sector and the military sector. We manage all the software delivery projects through tools such as JIRA Service Management or TFS Confluence is a great tool for…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We were able to scale perfectly.​"
"There are not many enterprise asset management systems on the market and not many that have the categories that IBM Maximo has."
"They have a real strength of tracking the asset itself along with the condition of the asset, the maintenance of the asset and who has access to the asset, etc."
"We are very thankful to have IBM integrated with our own Legacy cloud-based system"
"We can manage, organize, and track incidents, claims, jobs, tasks, preventive and corrective maintenance, locations, and assets."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to correct maintenance."
"Reliable, very configurable, and it's all integrated in the same database."
"We were doing all kinds of paperwork for every type of order and to maintain our assets but with the use of the IBM Maximo application, we can automate a lot of the processes."
"Jira lets us customize the workflow to meet our requirements. The email and alert features are also handy."
"I find the Kanban chart where we put each story in to be the most valuable feature. We use the Kanban chart to revise the project every morning in our five-minute meeting."
"We have found the issue type feature particularly valuable, as it provides an out-of-the-box solution that aligns with our needs."
"JSM's best feature is the integration with other Jira products."
"The stability of JIRA Service Management is good."
"Using JIRA simplifies tracking issues and updates."
"Great to be able to create customized forms."
"I'm mainly working in the ITSM module of JIRA Service Management, and the integration between the system incident and how you can link all the records to the change makes it quite powerful."
 

Cons

"​Maximo is a big system, so the initial setup is complex."
"Areas for improvement would be the user interface and support for Arabic. They could also be more customer-oriented."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is easy and one is difficult, I rate the setup process a two since it is very complicated."
"Vendor management needs enhancement."
"This solution could improve by integrating or embedding finances, charts of accounts, and invoicing."
"It's not user-friendly. It could use shortcuts for frequently requested services."
"You can get lost using the application"
"It's quite reliable, but new versions often are not too stable. They bring in enhancements but they break other stuff."
"Every time there's a problem with JIRA Service Management, you have to have a look at how to solve it, and there's always a feature request or the feature request on the solution is too large and the development cycles are too slow."
"I don't think the program is very scalable."
"Jira Service Management should be more user-friendly."
"They need to work on the speed of Jira."
"The licensing model could be improved."
"The pricing could be better."
"​SaaS version for large organizations (more than 2000 users) is not available."
"This solution lacks features for project management."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM Maximo offers a licensing application, and you have to comply with the license."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low and ten is high, I rate the pricing a nine. The price is very high."
"The price of IBM Maximo could reduce, it is expensive."
"The concurrent user license is much more effective in management and cost-wise, as it is more suitable for maintenance management."
"IBM has changed the licensing policy. As I understand now, they are going from a complex way of licensing to a more simple way of licensing."
"$USD700 per agent user."
"I do not know about the price of the solution. However, this has been an expensive project overall."
"You pay for what you get. There are lots of options depending on how you would like to implement Maximo."
"We have paid $20,000 recently for a one-year license for our on-prem server."
"Actually in Iran we don't have copyright or intellectual property, so we can use JIRA for free."
"Buying a software solution is only a half part of the solution (or even less). You need to optimize usage of the software by hiring professionals who will help you to make the most of the software, especially in the beginning."
"But about the plugins, I found one plug-in — its name is Actionable Metric I think — and it is $3000. That is very expensive for users in Iran."
"We have an annual license with JIRA Service Management, but it is billed monthly."
"The license we use is on a yearly basis. As a Solution Partner, we were using the free one and were using the free plugins. We were also giving our own plugins to the Atlassian Solution Partners for free. We don't pay anything to Atlassian."
"I price of JIRA Service Management is reasonable."
"I rate Service Management four out of 10 for affordability. The price could be better, especially for companies using more than one Atlassian product. It's suitable for SMBs that can afford it. I don't think there's another tool that's both better and cheaper. All help desk tools are relatively expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
34%
Energy/Utilities Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Maximo?
It can be particularly useful for power line operations, enabling linemen in the field to gather information and send it across the country as well as different parts of the world.
What needs improvement with IBM Maximo?
Though I liked it a lot, I think it was lagging a lot. It was very slow due to the lagging issues. So that was kind of frustrating, considering how slow it was while functioning. The aforementioned...
What is your primary use case for IBM Maximo?
It can be particularly useful for power line operations, enabling linemen in the field to gather information and send it across the country as well as different parts of the world. With IBM Maximo,...
 

Also Known As

Maximo
JIRA Service Desk
 

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Sample Customers

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